MIT Fall, 2011 11.014J / 21.H232J Prof. Robert M. Fogelson Wednesdays (2:00pm-4:00pm)

AMERICAN URBAN HISTORY II

1. Introduction September 7

2. Parks September 14

Geoffrey Blodgett, "Frederick Law Olmsted: Landscape Architecture as Conservative Reform," Journal of American History, March 1976, pp. 869-889.

Ian R. Stewart, "Politics and the Park," New York Historical Society Quarterly, July/October 1977, pp. 124-155.

Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. and Theodora Kimball, eds., Forty Years of Landscape Architecture: Central Park (Cambridge, Mass., 1973), pp. 18-67.

Roy Rosenzweig, Eight Hours For What We Will (Cambridge, England, 1983), chapter 5.

Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and Theodore Kimball, eds., Frederick Law Olmsted Landscape Architect, 1822-1903 (New York, 1970), volume 2, pp. 451-465.

3. Amusement Parks September 21

Film: Coney Island (P.B.S., 1991).

John Kasson, Amusing the Million (New York, 1978).

Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements (Philadelphia, 1986), chapter 5.

John M. Findlay, Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940 (Berkeley, 1992), chapter 2.

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4. First Discussion of Term Papers September 28

5. Suburbs October 12

Palos Verdes Protective Restrictions (1923).

Robert M. Fogelson, Bourgeois Nightmares: Suburbia, 1870–1930 (New Haven, 2005).

6. Tenements October 19

Roy Lubove, The Progressives and the Slums: Tenement House Reform in New York City 1890-1917 (Pittsburgh, 1962), chapters 2, 4, 5.

Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (New York, 1890), chapters 1-8, 21.

Ernest Flagg, "The New York Tenement-House Evil and Its Cure," in Robert A. Woods, The Poor in Great Cities (New York, 1970), pages 370-392.

Oscar Newman, Defensible Space (New York, 1972), chapter 2.

Jonathan Freedman, Crowding and Behavior (New York, 1975), chapters 1 and 5.

7. Second Discussion of Term Papers October 26

8. Skyscrapers November 2

Paul Goldberger, The Skyscraper (New York, 1981), chapter 1.

William H. Jordy and Ralph Coe, eds., American Architecture and Other Writings by Montgomery Schuyler (Cambridge, Mass., 1961), pp. 442-452.

Robert M. Fogelson, Downtown: Its Rise and Fall, 1850-1930 (New Haven, 2001), chapter 3.

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J.M. Neil, "Paris or New York? The Shaping of Downtown Seattle, 1903- 14," Pacific Northwest Quarterly, January 1984, pp. 22-33.

Civic Development Department, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Economic Height of Buildings: The Skyscraper Attacked and Defended (Washington, D.C., 1927), pp. 3-31.

9. Department Stores November 9

Joel A. Tarr, "The Chicago Anti-Department Store Crusade of 1897, "Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Summer 1971, pp. 161-172.

Gunther Barth, City People (New York, 1980), pp. 110-147.

Susan Porter Benson, Counter Cultures (Urbana, 1986), chapter 3-4.

Daniel J. Boorstin, The Americans: The Democratic Experience (New York, 1973), chapter 10.

William Leach, True Love and Perfect Union: The Feminist Reform of Sex and Society (New York, 1980), pp. 222-237.

10. Supermarkets November 16

Piggly Wiggly Contract Requirements, Etc. (Memphis, 1919).

John Keats, What Ever Happened to Mom's Apple Pie? (Boston, 1976), pp. 101-107, 127-134.

Vance Packard, The Hidden Persuaders (New York, 1957), chapter 10.

David B. Sicilia, "Supermarket Sweep," Audacity, Spring 1997, pp. 11-19.

Richard Longstreth, The Drive-in, the Supermarket, and the Transformation of Commercial Space in Los Angeles, 1914-1941 (Cambridge, 1999), chapter 4.

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11. Public Baths November 30

Marilyn Thornton Williams, "Philanthropy in the Progressive Era: The Public Baths of Baltimore," Maryland Historical Magazine (1977), pp. 118- 131.

Marilyn Thornton Williams, "New York City's Public Baths," Journal of Urban History, November 1980, pp. 49-81.

Jacqueline S. Wilkie, "Submerged Sensuality: Technology and Perceptions of Bathing," Journal of Social History, Summer 1986, pages 649-664.

Richard L. Bushman and Claudia L. Bushman, "The Early History of Cleanliness in America," Journal of American History (March 1988), pp. 1213-1238.

Suellen Hoy, Chasing Dirt: The American Pursuit of Cleanliness (New York, 1995), chapter 4.

Wm. Paul Gerhard, "The Modern Rain-Bath," American Architect and Building News, February 10, 1894, pages 67-69.

12. Zoos December 7

Helen Horowitz, "The National Zoological Park: 'City of Refuge' or Zoo?" Records of the Columbia Historical Society of Washington, D.C. (1973-1974), pp. 405-429.

Helen Horowitz, "Seeing Ourselves Through the Bars," Landscape (1981), pp. 12-19.

James Turner, Reckoning with the Beast (Baltimore, 1980).

John Berger, About Looking (New York, 1980), pp. 1-26.

13. Cemeteries December 14

4 Philippe Aries, "The Reversal of Death: Change in Attitudes Toward Death in Western Societies," in David Stannard, ed., Death in America (Philadelphia, 1975), pp. 134-158.

Stanley French, "The Cemetery as Cultural Institution: The Establishment of Mt. Auburn and the Rural Cemetery Movement," American Quarterly, March 1974, pp. 37-59.

James J. Farrell, Inventing the American Way of Death, 1830-1920 (Philadelphia, 1980) chapter 4.

David Charles Sloane, The Last Great Necessity: Cemeteries in American History, (Baltimore, 1991), chapter 7.

John F. Kasson, Rudeness & Civility: Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America (New York, 1990), chapter 5.

David A. Schuyler, The New Urban Landscape (Baltimore, 1986), chapter 3.

14. Conclusion December 14 (same day as cemeteries)

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